Mouldering
[məʊldərɪŋ]
Definition
(-) of Moulder
Typed by Doreen
Examples
- Besides, most of the boxes and drawers there were mouldering, and did not lock. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mouldering away before our eyes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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